#to expulse all of the negativity and numbness this movie generated

[izartn]

Just came back from the cinema with my mom; we’ve watched TROS and well... Gods it was just so so so fucking bad.

Resuming my journey these last years: I’m a super recent fan of Star Wars, I only started liking the franchise when Rogue One came out. I loved it and I decided to give a chance to TFA, and all of the previous films. I rather liked the prequels, and I think they are better than the originals; at least I liked them more. (My mother btw agrees with me. She really liked the lore and worldbuilding and all the mythology and Jedi philosophy there, and how Anakin is affected by it in his descent to the dark side. More interesting than the adventure/action and a bit outdated romance of the originals.) 

When I watched TFA after all of the previous movies (again, the first time I was mehmeh about the movie without proper backstory) I was hooked. I felt like the sequel trilogy was mine, my favourite, and it was because of Rey and Kylo Ren. I sensed a truly intriguing enemies dynamic, maybe some potential for romantic angst? And when I watched TLJ, woa. My first time watching a SW film (RO doesn’t really count, it’s outside the main continuity, although it's like second or third in my SW movie list) at the cinema and I loved it. I couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying, how much better than TFA it was, with the lore the force connection... Even CantoBight and Poe’s arc was somewhat interesting. And the symbolism... It felt like the mangas/animes I love, complex and interesting and conflicted. All the themes about reconciling the old and the new were perfect. And of course, Rey and Kylo/Ben relationship was OwO

TROS is bad because it didn’t make me feel anything. I confess I was a bit spoiled by tumblr. I knew Ben was gonna die, that the Palpatine thing with Rey was... not good, and that Poe-Finn-Rose papers in the movie weren’t good. My mother didn’t know any of this. I tell this because when you know some of the things that are going to happen, it may cheapen the experience but nope. She and I had the same reactions to the movie. A big grand what???? are they really doing this??? why is this happening??? from where did all the people come(you know all of the FO soldiers and officers and all those allies at the end and those weirdos with Palpatine acting as a choir)??? WTF. When people were dying or when our heroes were winning, it didn’t matter because it was the same. Things were happening but they weren’t well done or something because they felt pointless a lot of the time or ooc or disconnected emotionally from the audience. To the point that I (reylo, if you hadn’t noticed my former hints about what made me pay attention to the sequels) didn't care about Ben and Rey scenes because they felt absurd. I mean, I noticed the connection and the obsession and at the start, I was, oh they could do something interesting out of this, but lol nope. It felt repetitive, and when Kylo started talking about Rey being Palpatine’s granddaughter ugh. Like it destroyed a big part of TLJ. 

The fight against Palpatine was absurd. They are this super powerfull and young and not seen in centuries dyad-duo-pair (in Spain I think they called it “el poder de dos”) and Palpatine fucking sucks their power and throws Ben out of a cliff and then Rey has to kill Palpatine alone and dies? and then Ben revives her and also dies? my mother and i were like, whatever it doesn’t matter it’s all absurd. same for all the drama of poe and finn. (btw finn in love with rey, really??? i thought we had buried that in TLJ??? for good???) it was funny at the end though, because my mother was “oh now poe and finn should kiss” and i told her, “well a lot of the fandom also think so” and then rey appeared and the three hugged and she was “well now there is a threesome” and I told her, “well there is also a big part of the fandom who ships those three” and we were laughing silently. The end in tatooine was blegh. by then we weren’t even really paying attention. Rey Skywalker was met with this declaration “maybe if they had let Ben live she could have that last name and future skywalker babies to continue the legacy” which was more sardonic than anything for my part, because the movie was so bad that Ben living would have been just another slightly better meh. It was bad either way by then.

So this is all. I’m sad that this trilogy I had high hopes for has ended so badly. Like my mother said it before me: this was another season 8 of game of thrones and wow. So true. Now I’ll go to AO3 searching for good canon divergence and fix-it fics. This has been my vent.